Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-20
SUGAR MADE FROM coat TAR.
Possible Results Of Discovery Made On
Germany-various Authorizations.

Germany-various Authorizations.
The scientific world is just now inter-
estci il a recent discovery, by which coal
tar Is male into sugar. The enterprise
originated in Germany, but is attracting
general attention in this country. DIR. L.
&. Minor, who keeps posted on everything,
was called upon to give some facts on coal
tar Slrsur.
the new substitute for sugar" re-
marked DIR. Minor, sis called saccharine,
and is really product of coal tar. 1t
will add an additional value to the refuse
of Gas works. Its discoverer was Fohl-
berg, who formerly lived in the cast, but
resides at the present time, think, in
Hamburg"
HAS the new substance been intro
duced to commerce."
''Not to any large extent, owing to its
cost, for it Is worth about $12 per pound.
Yet one pound of saccharine will sweeten
10000 pounds of water.
"How is it prepared for the sugar mar
ket.'
Tho preparation used in Europe is an
admixture of glucose and dextrin. Ono
pound of saccharine will convert 1900
pounds of glucose into the very best grade
of ordinary table sugar; that is, twill re-
semble table sugar as regards sweetness,
without the nutritious qualities Of the real
article.
"You don't mean to say that there is
no nutrition in saccharine, doctorS"
ssYes; it has little or no nutritious prop
erty, and is merely an adulterant.
s'Is it likely that it will be ever used on
large scale as an adulterant in the
United States?"
ssOf course, y replied DIR. Minor, when
the process of making the saccharinc Is
cheapened / would be willing to pre-
dict that every large gas works in the
country will be selling saccharine as q
refuse principle in the next twenty years,
and that there will be enough profit in tho
business to make illuminating gas for
nothing; in other words the present gas
works win he a saccharinc manufacturing
establishment, wliile the refuse viii be IL
Illuminating gas. Anilinc colors and am
monia salts viii be ilade under tho same
roof ~ tho coal tar from which the sac
chariae il devolved. =
llst is the process CT making sac
=. NtaClDIs
..Iu.., question can be answered better
by chemist, " sail DIR. Minor. lit is
usulI. however, to take what il called the
toluele in coal tar and treat this sub
stance with phosphorus pentachloridc; it
is the cost of this other article that rem
ders the manufacture of saccharine SO ex-
pensive. Yet, even as expensive as it is,
a quality of sugar can now be inanufac-
tured even cheaper than New Orleans
cane sugar."
s.What will be tho result of this new
adulterant?"
ssIt will cheaper the cost of sweetening
materials in groceries and candies and
will enhance the value of real cane sugar,
Just as the price of pure butter has been
increased by the vile adulteration, oleo-
margarine. The working people, who
now pay tax on every pound Of sugar
they consume, can enjoy glucose, the
product of corn, adulterated with saccha-
rine, which has no nutritious qualities.
Pure butter, pure sugar and pure milk
will always cost large price and only
be within reach of the wealthy. Why,
even modern Chicago lard is now said to
be largely made from cotton seed oil.
This is the age of adulteration, and about
the only pure article left to the mass Of
humanity are plain bread and water"
ssHow about coffee and tea, doctor?"
ssCoffee In the berry, unbrowned and
unground, can not be initiated, but three
fourths of the ground coffees on the mar
ket are adulterated, As for tea, Ceylon
is now the great producing country for
cheap teas. which are palmed off in
Europe for fine Chinese goods. Ceylon
teas lack much OF the theme or active
principle Of tea that Is found in the genu-
Inc Hong Kong chops Cincinnati En-.
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